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Mini donkey gets new lease on life with prosthetic
Determination probably wouldn’t be the first quality you’d associate with a miniature donkey, but if Bella’s story is anything to go by maybe it should be.
Separated from her mother at just two months old by a negligent breeder, Bella was in a bad state. Bella was severely underweight, malnourished and had started to develop frostbite in her leg.
But, as luck would have it, a couple from Minneapolis visited the farm and discovered Bella.
They couldn’t bear seeing Bella in that state and decided to rescue her.
But the frostbite in her leg was more severe than first thought, to the point where vets initially advised Bella’s new owners to put her down.
But there was something in Bella’s eyes that made them change their mind.
One of Bella’s owners, Ann, told the Huffington Post: “They really strongly wanted to put her down. Donkeys don’t have any value in society. I said, “Well, she’s still here, she’s still surviving. I don’t want to put her down if she’s still fighting.”
So Bella’s leg was amputated and fitted with an expensive prosthetic replacement.
And now she’s up, running around and loving life.
While the procedure was expensive, her owners say it was well worth it.
“She’s super sweet. She loves people, she loves affection,” says Ann, “She’s very used to having people ‘hands-on’ because she’s had that her whole life … she’s pretty popular around here.”
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